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Iraqi Election Protest: Gorran Movement,
Islamic League and Kurdistan Islamic Union
18.3.2010 |
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March
18, 2010
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — According to the
representatives of the three political parties and
groups, Gorran Movement, Islamic League and
Kurdistan Islamic Union, the election on 7th March
2010 did not escape the fraud and vote rigging that
is sadly becoming characteristic of these occasions.
The local Kurdish newspaper Awena interviewed the
leaders of these groups and parties and they
confirmed the facts and the case of fraud in the
election.
Zana Rostai, the representative of the Islamic
League, revealed to Awena that the two ruling
parties KDP and PUK could not let the election go
without fraud and intervention. He admitted that the
group had submitted 20 complaints to the Iraqi High
Commission of Elections. They confirmed that the
type of fraud included the following: in the area of
Erbil people voted with no proper ID or people were
brought to voting stations who were under-age for
voting. According to them, the Islamic League
managed to get 80,000 votes in Hawler and 70,000
votes in Sulaimaniyah, which has not produced a seat
yet.
The representative and candidate for Gorran in
Erbil, Shorsh Haji, stated in his interview with the
newspaper of the widespread fraud taking place in
Erbil and Koye by the two ruling parties, especially
the PUK in Koye. He went on to explain the methods
carried out by the PUK such as the fact that 6,200
false forms of identification were made for people
in Koye to vote in favour of the PUK candidate.
These I.D’s were assigned to the names and addresses
of people who had either died or been away from
Kurdistan since 1993,www.ekurd.netwith
the pictures of these people who carried them to the
voting stations. Another method of fraud and vote
rigging was the presence of security forces in those
polling stations which presented an image of a
strong muscular force to intimidate people and force
them to vote for the PUK.
Of course in the election of the 25th July 2009 the
Gorran Movement won in the town of Koye.
Alson Salahadin Babakr, the leading member of the
KIU politburo, registered similar claims and
accusations against the two ruling parties. Although
Babakr stated that this election had been much
better, he went on to state that it still had not
refrained from the fraud subjected to that of the
25th July 2009. Salahadin Babakr expected 6-7 seats
for the KIU from the 100,000 votes they had
received.
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